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American Airlines Battles Tulsa Maintenance Union Workers

6/30/2019

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  American Airlines (AA) went to Federal Court, this past week, to seek penalties for union members defying an injunction at the main Maintenance facility in Tulsa, as well as other facilities which service the aircraft they rely upon. 
  In testimony offered to the courts, AA says that over 175,000 travelers have been inconvenienced by the slowdown which the union is accused of orchestrating.
  AA's largest maintenance facility is in Tulsa, OK.
 A trial is scheduled for Monday in federal district court in Fort Worth on American’s request for a permanent injunction against the Transport Workers Union and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
  The unions strongly contend that AA is to blame for walking away from contract talks.  They claim that the low morale is an inevitability which the union is helpless to contain.
  The court has set a Monday hearing on the matter. It's at the federal courthouse in Fort Worth, TX.
  AA has long been the largest single employer in the Tulsa metro area.
  The Associated Press (AP) has continuing coverage of the developments.
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Pawhuska City Manager Fires Police Chief As Last Act Before Quitting

6/28/2019

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  The same Rex Wikel who oversaw the arrest of the infamous Hemp Truck crew, seems to be involved in yet another scandal, up in the notorious county seat of Osage County.
  Rex Wikel was the police chief of Pawhuska last winter, when the department claimed "the biggest marijuana bust in Oklahoma History".  Then Wikel became the asst. city manager, under Larry Eulert, who was holding the position for a couple years. That term ends this weekend and Eulert's parting gift to Wikel was to fire the Top cop who replaced Wikel, so Wikel wouldn't have to.
 There' been an outpouring of outrage, today; from citizens around the city. 
  Wikel has been ridiculed nationally for his ignorance in commandeering a full semitrailer of federally legal industrial hemp, using inept field testing evidence.  Oklahoma may face federal lawsuits from Colorado & Kentucky for violating Interstate commerce laws and damaging more than half a million dollar payload. District Attorney Mike Fisher has been lampooned mercilessly for his attempts to press life sentences for members of the trucking team.
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The beloved and popular new city police chief, Nick Silva, was just fired, this morning, but his predecessor and the retired acting city manager.

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Retired Chief Justice, Steven Taylor, Gets Called Up for Duty

6/18/2019

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  The man has been called "the Rock Star" by authorities like Tulsa District Attorney, Steven Kunzweiler. Former Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice, Steven Taylor, has been called out of retirement at the request of the Cleveland County District Court judge who is presiding over the docket that includes many major lawsuits involving Opioid manufacturers and distributors, and the State of Oklahoma.
  The matter got stickier when AG Mike Hunter 'went rogue' and devised whole new state institutions and took the hundreds of millions from one settlement to fully fund the construction, staffing, and scope of the new govt. entity.
  The legislature & governor had to scurry in the spring session to write & pass laws to reign in the conduct of the AG.  But that seems to be falling somewhat on deaf ears at the AG's office, because another settlement of $85 million is at risk because the terms don't seem to be consistent with the new law.
  For this reason, Cleveland County District Court Judge, Thad Balkman, tapped the most respected jurist available. That's Steven Taylor.
  Taylor is the former mayor of McAlester, OK. He then was elected to the district court in Pittsburgh county. Judge Taylor presided over the famous Oklahoma City Bombing trial of Terry Nichols, from his court in McAlester.  Taylor was also a Marine infantry platoon commander, and  the Marine's youngest military court judge, at age 28.
Read more of the case, here.
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Retired Chief Justice, Steven Taylor, at a recent OKC Memorial Marathon.
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Cops Fall Back On Coordination Tests To Determine Motorist Impairment

6/17/2019

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Yet Canadian lawmakers appear willing to trust drug testing devices that are nearly 30% inaccurate.

  One of the unintended consequences of the 'technology age' has been the creeping dependencies on machines, tests, and arbitrary numbers, to determine important public safety standards.
  With the new medicines being developed every year, we find an untenable policy being exposed in our courts and public safety agencies.
  Now we have a very old medicine in Oklahoma that has returned to legal status; and that has cops squirming because they don't have proper technology to do their work for them.
  Folks who remember the 1970s will recall that cops had low-tech solutions to demonstrate impairment. They simply had motorists stand on the side of the road and perform a few coordination exercises.  While there are some criticisms of relying solely on that testimony, it does also provide a more exact science of illustrating what's 'impairment' for that particular motorist. When we add the visual court evidence of a bodycam or dashcam, the legal case becomes quite compelling.
  Recent high-profile cases have left Oklahomans highly doubting the integrity of lab results conducted by law enforcement agencies. Outright fraud has led to multimillion dollar judgments to individuals who were maliciously framed by police lab personnel.  
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Video of a field coordination test is a very compelling piece of evidence in any court.

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Activist Releases Plans To End Marijuana Prohibition

6/9/2019

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Oklahoma has had access to legal cannabis medicines for about half a year. In that time the licensed growing, processing, & dispensary outlets have far exceeded projections for economic impact. Last month, dispensaries paid $3.6 million dollars on cannabis medicine sales.
  The masses of our citizens  who have become licensed to treat their medical conditions with Cannabis, is double what the State Health Dept. projected just 10 months ago.
   Now, many of the same advocates who brought about SQ788, are announcing their intent to draft language for a broader repeal of prohibition of cannabis.
  This is not uncharted territory for Oklahoma. On this date, 90 years ago, Marijuana was fully legal in Oklahoma, and Liquor possession was a federal crime.
   Chris Moe has been a lobbying force at the state capitol for most of this past session. He's organizing a massive 2-day festival in Oklahoma City, to commemorate the passage of SQ788.  
  As a chronic pain sufferer, Moe has seen scores of fellow Oklahomans' lives improved, as Opiates were replaced with Cannabis medicine alternatives.
  Moe recently posted his political strategy to his social media outlets. We're  posting his message below.

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OMMA Explains The False Reports of Marijuana Licenses

6/4/2019

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Rep. Scott Fetgatter researched the causes & reported back to SoonerPolitics. 

  In our recent news article, OMMA Audit Reveals False Agency Reports of Licenses,  we asked several questions about what the root causes might be. In our investigation we reached out to one of the legislators who devoted extensive attention to the new agency and it's operation. 
  Representative Scott Fetgatter of Okmulgee said he'd look into the matter when we contacted him Monday evening. Early this afternoon he responded with the news that the agency provided directly to him.
  He said that the custom software system the OMMA is using, has a counting system that gives running totals in every classification of licensing. But a glitch in the software is evidently resulting in a redundant count when a license holder provides updated information about their existing license. So if a dispensary  needs to follow up with new information, they would update their details with the OMMA. But that would inadvertently be counted as 2 licenses, while only one actual license exists.
  We're not sure if a change in appointed caregiver may also be a factor, so that when a patient cancels a caregiver license and appoints another, does the software still tabulate two licenses when only one exists? the Caregiver count is the most radical category of change in the new report.
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OMMA Audit Reveals False Agency Reports of Licenses

6/3/2019

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  The OMMA finally resumed their reports on the numbers of licenses filed and issued by the Agency. The previous report, on May 13th (20 days ago) had some very inaccurate data. It appears that the numbers were way off for several weekly reports. This data gave a false impression to market analysts and venture capitalists, as well as proprietors investing vast sums in the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Industry.

  The short Twitter 'tweet' simply says that "An audit has been performed. The agency does not tell us that any mistakes were make, but our own spreadsheets and archives of their tweets does indicate that they have been reporting inconsistent numbers.

  The agency claims that they were forced to hire 'temps' until the legislature could authorize the proper funding for true employees.  In the past few months their call center has been disbanded for several weeks so they could divert that staffing to filling the backlogs of applicants whom they are mandated to provide an accurate response to within 14 days of submitting a complete application online.
​  Here's what our spreadsheets seem to indicate about data which we now see as false...
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NewKirk Mayor Announces Rancher Relief Effort

6/2/2019

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  Brian Hobbs is the newly elected mayor of the north central Oklahoma city of Newkirk. we spoke on Saturday about a multi county flood relief effort he's helping to organize, for affected counties.
 He says the initiative was started by a young woman who used to be his family's babysitter. Thalia Douglas is working with needy farmers & ranchers throughout the flooded counties. Here's the update the field team sent him. He forwarded it to our news service.
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From Thalia Douglas;
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On May 23rd, 2019, I made a post on Facebook requesting volunteers for rescue, transport, and housing for livestock affected by floods. Within 36 hours, that alert roster had grown to over 500 volunteers, scattered not only throughout Oklahoma, but also neighboring states in AR, TX, and MO.
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